Monday, November 2, 2009

HSUS, Pacelle Suggests Using Guns To Force Change

Quote of the WeekOct 30, 2009Center for Consumer Freedom

Last night in Los Angeles, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) president Wayne Pacelle showed why he’s been able to turn a group that sounds as if it’s all about protecting puppies and kittens into an animal-rights lobbying force with talons. He’s looking to sink those talons into people who have the audacity to eat or sell meat, wear leather, go to circuses, or enjoy hunting and fishing – in other words, 99 percent of America.

"We have to create a clamor for change ... You can get further with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone."

He attributed the latter quote to notorious gangster Al Capone, who seems like an odd inspiration for a supposedly peaceful movement. But animal-rights extremists are far from peaceful. One of Pacelle’s own staffers, Josh Balk, told the HSUS-sponsored “Taking Action For Animals” that “there are very few instances that companies just refuse to move with a friendly conversation … The animals can’t wait for people to come to a revelation themselves. Sometimes it does take force.”

For someone who constantly tries telling the ag community that they aren’t trying to eliminate animal agriculture, it seems quite odd that he would be advocating the use of violence to do so. Apparently the HSUS is prepared to use violence against anyone who disagrees with them on animal rights.

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